Leonie Industries

Leonie Industries is a a woman-owned strategic communications company that promises "access to seemingly impenetrable markets" around the world, specializing in the Middle East. Services offered include global advertising and public relations, global media production, event management and web development.

In September 2008, Leonie was one of four firms that won an up to three-year, $300 million contract for "information operations" in Iraq and possibly Afghanistan. The other firms were Lincoln Group, which was outed in 2005 for planting U.S. military-written pieces in Iraqi newspapers; SOS International, which in 2006 won a contract to monitor foreign media for coverage of the so-called Global War on Terrorism; and MPRI, a unit of L-3 Communications that won a contract in 2003 to involve former Iraqi soldiers in public works projects. The new PR push was described by the U.S. military as "a means toward 'reconciliation' of the country and a way to foster support for Iraqi Security Forces from Iraqi civilians."

According to its website, in 2008 Leonie was also awarded a U.S. Army Internet support services contract, a U.S. Army research contract, and "helped sponsor a 3-day leadership training seminar for women in Sulamaniya, Iraq" that "was organized by FUTURE and involved more than 60 Iraqis."

Contact information
Website: http://www.leoindus.com

The firm filed as an LLC in California on August 11, 2004, naming Jeffrey Lee Costell as the firm's agent and listing as the firm's address: 17383 Sunset Blvd #420A Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

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